Project CHOICES-Community of Coaching

Day 3 Coaching coming to Dixon

2010-04-28T13:40:00.001-07:00

MAY 13-DIXON, IL

Please join us

for

Day 3- Put Me in Coach

Dixon School Administrative Office

1335 Franklin Grove Road

Dixon, IL

LET'S PUSH PAUSE

2010-04-12T12:36:00.001-07:00

Spring is bursting out all over. This time of year is filled with excitment and anticipation as the school year winds down. But, it isn't over yet-so let's push pause.

Pausing is an extremely useful technique to use in meetings and coaching sessions.

Pausing creates wait time and gives the brain the opportunity to think.

Pausing is also useful before paraphrasing.

So, as you go through the next two weeks think about the ways you can embed pausing into your work. As educators, we want to reward "quality", not speed. The more time we give ourselves to respond, the richer and deeper the answer becomes.

Let's have fun and use the blog to support one another to further develop the skill of pausing.

In what ways did you use the "pause"? How did it go?

What are you noticing as you pause? What are you noticing about student responses when you model pausing? What things are you finding helpful?

Day 3 Rescheduled

2010-02-14T08:58:00.000-08:00

NOTICE
Day 3 Coaching
Rescheduled

March 16-Holiday Inn
Convention Center
Tinley Park, IL

May 18-John A Logan Community College
Rm. F119
Carterville, IL

Locations did not change

2010-02-03T06:16:00.000-08:00

One BIG idea from Day 3 Coaching is surfacing assumptions-why do you think you will see in the data?

What are you noticing as you begin to talk about data by surfacing assumptions first without the data present? What are you hearing and seeing?

Welcome to the Project CHOICES Community of Coaches

2010-01-22T09:36:00.000-08:00

Let the games begin. The coin has been tossed. Coaches have been selected. The clock is ticking. Now, what?

This site is being developed to support one another as a community of coaches. Most of you have been to two days of coaching and may have had some opportunities to implement some of the ideas that were discussed.

We are hopeful this blog can be used to share strategies, successes, struggles and to build a community of learning around coaching.

Just a few ground rules for participation:
1) Keep it clean. (There are seven words you can never say on television or blogging-according to George Carlin.)
2) Keep it professional.
3) Keep it about coaching.
4) Keep it positive.

To start the conversation, take a look at this You Tube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVToW7f5_2k

What connections are you making to your work?